I will admit I was an Instasnob. “What’s the BD?” I would think…hoping BD (BigDeal) would catch on like WTF or FTW. Spoiler alert: it hasn’t. YET.

Anyway I didn’t get the hype. Instagram? More like Poor Man’s Hipstamatic! (Hold up, do you know that I actually had to walk over to my iPhone and find Hipstamatic to remember the name of the app? That’s how irrelevant it is a mere year after I used it last. One year human life is likened to 6 years in iPhone life.)

Then, the worst thing that could ever happen to a Mother happened. Well, second worst. My DSLR stopped functioning at full capacity. This came at a time that we were in the midst of a move AND my original MacBook Pro gave out. I felt like I was being punished by the universe.

I had to embrace another way to photograph every moment of my children’s lives or I would lose the Mamarazzi title I worked so hard to get. I needed to post copious fragments of our lives on FB or else it never happened because my kids are too young to remember and I am too old not to forget. YEARS OF CHILDHOOD HISTORY COMPLETELY LOST if not for my savior, The Instagram.

Also I like to take photos of food I make. Not because my food looks good or is healthy or because I post recipes anywhere worthwhile. Just because it is MY food and therefore of interest to ME. There, I said it. Instagram has made me a selfish sharer….sharing only things I myself am interested in. But then…I have found others like me and their things interest me, too. So there’s this sharing of selfs going on and unlike FB it is an actual peek into someone’s life. A glimpse at their dinner or their children’s feet in the sand and there is something human and comforting in that.

I don’t have a huge following and I don’t use hashtags to my benefit but I enjoy my little slice of humanness — find me @aznaz or check out some of my food photos below:

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In honor of the upcoming chocolate gorge sesh, I am posting a few snapshots of our Easter festivities.

Me & the boys made mini cakes for their school Easter celly tomorrow. Strawberry cake with lemon frosting and Easter nonpareils. Nomz:

Our neighborhood Eggstravaganza – the kids are squealing with delight here which was a far cry from their miserable whining just moments before. I love photos! Hopefully they can help me forget how ridic our morning was prior to this happy snapshot:

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And a very retouched family shot in an attempt to erase all signs of allergic suffering from our faces (we look like we’re made of wax & I’m normally not that bronze…it’s a photo effect I went nuts with to cover the redness in my face from pollen adversity):

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today it was sunny and in the high 70s – a reminder that spring will be here soon & time outdoors will be longer and more frequent. junior enjoyed an apple (dipped in peanut butter because i’m an enabler) in the sun while the boys explored (aka collected rocks from our gravel and stone path) and i took some snapshots of new blooms and relished the springlike weather.